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Well, we knew Dominick's wasn't coming back. But plenty of other restaurants and food trucks are gearing up to participate in Taste of Chicago, July 9-13 in Grant Park. City officials Wednesday announced the names of 66 participating food vendors, a mix of 36 restaurants that will serve food for the festival's five-day run, 13 pop-up restaurants that will appear for one or two days, and 17 food trucks, which will be on the Taste site on a rotating basis (there will be 11 trucks at Taste each day)

A small group of food cart vendors and others who want to help expand their ability to do business noshed on hot tamales and cut fruit, items that are illegal for them to sell on the street in Chicago, during a gathering Wednesday night at a Rogers Park church. The town hall was the latest in a string of meetings organized recently by the Street Vendors Justice Coalition, which describes itself as a “grassroots movement to roll back Chicago's restrictive mobile food law.” Joseph Randol, 24, an aspiring food entrepreneur, came to the meeting at St. Jerome Catholic Church after finding out that his budding business plan to sell bagels from a garden cart before perhaps expanding to a food truck or storefront is illegal in Chicago.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Vikram Vij doesn't have an entourage. There is no publicist, personal assistant or handler. When I make arrangements to meet for our interview, I text him directly. But that doesn't mean the owner of one of Vancouver's most popular restaurants isn't in demand. Ask any chef in this food-obsessed city about the owner and creative force behind Vij's, and you'll hear pretty much the same themes: humble, generous, tireless. That last adjective is apropos, considering the hectic year ahead for the 50-year-old entrepreneur: judging stints on the Canadian versions of "Chopped" and "Top Chef"; opening a new restaurant in the suburbs; moving his eponymous restaurant into a gleaming new space on its 20th anniversary while turning the original space into something "new and exciting"; and running an upscale cafe and takeout called Rangoli next door, not to mention his ubiquitous food truck.

From Beijing to Berlin, and in cities across America, food carts have become hot attractions. Regulars visit them every day. Tourists seek them out. Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Austin, New York … all enjoy a thriving mobile-food trade. Chicago has some food carts too, a few operating legally, despite the city doing everything possible to discourage would-be vendors. Why would a city with the best hot dogs anywhere make it illegal to serve them from a cart on the sidewalk?

(Reuters) - The owners of New York City's iconic Katz's Delicatessen filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the operators of local food trucks named Katz & Dogz, claiming the trucks are a blatant attempt to dupe consumers. Customers are likely to assume that the trucks, which sell the same Jewish-style fare, and the famed deli are somehow affiliated, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The deli's owners are seeking an order to bar the trucks from using any name that could easily be confused with Katz's.

By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas, March 9 (Reuters) - Actor, director and screenwriter Jon Favreau traded the high-flying super hero antics of his "Iron Man" movies for a quieter new film about a celebrated chef who quits his job at a top-flight restaurant and takes to the road in a food truck. "Chef," a small-budget, independent comedy with a big-name cast, including Iron Man veterans Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson, made its premiere at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin this weekend.

AUSTIN - From the moment he stepped onstage at the Paramount Theater, Jon Favreau was looking to entertain. "Chef," the film he wrote, starred in, co-produced and directed, opened the 2014 South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival Friday night, with all but a standing ovation. "I shoot food the way Michael Bay shoots women in bikinis," Favreau told Variety at the after-party, held at Mohawk, several blocks from the theater. Prior to the screening, Favreau ( pictured )

Libertyville officials are closer to approving regulations for mobile vendors. Last summer, the Libertyville Village Board considered regulating mobile vendors, such as food trucks, after more of the businesses started popping up in the village. Officials have now drafted a list of proposed regulations, which would include where and when the vendors can do business. The proposed regulations include a $500 annual permit fee and a background check for mobile vendors, as well as a requirement that sales in residential areas be confined between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. The requirements also would limit sales in one physical location to eight hours, and businesses would be limited to four sales per zoning lot during a 12-month period.